Quotes About Creativity

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's

once heard creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's what therapists do too.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

She was a master cake baker and her creations were not just oohed and ahhed over by other kids at my birthday parties, but requested by those kid's mothers for their own celebrations... She not only accepted any request I made, but far exceeded my own ideas as to how it might look. She was an artist who sculpted in cake and painted in frosting.

There's no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it'd be rather boring.

What the devil is that?" Jack asked. Frannie eased around to see what Jack was staring at. Greystone's back bore a painting of an unusual creature with fire coming out of its mouth and wings spread wide.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Si tienes el coraje suficiente para recuperar la inocencia y dejar volar la imaginación, también tú tendrás al dragón como amigo

Io sono un artista e ciò significa che posso essere egocentrico quanto mi pare.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.